Xah Lee's Blog Archive 2012-05 〜 2012-08

2012-08-18

I support Wikileaks and Julian Assange.

However, Julian's personality isn't the winning type.

If you've watched him on video, you get the impression that he's more of a calculating, conniving, asocial, loner, type of fellow. Such a character trait does not express emotion spontaneously. A significant percentage of geeks are like that. It does not correlate to one's ethical outlook and behavior.

TED2012: The only way to learn to fly is to fly

If you want to understand how, ask yourself this question, “What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?” It's an uncomfortable question, because it forces you to realize that the fear of failure holds you back. The path to new and innovative things always contains failure, but we're constantly afraid of it — we have to get over that fear. Dugan quotes Clemenceau, “Life gets interesting if you fail, because it means we've surpassed ourselves.”

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TED2012: The only way to learn to fly is to fly2012-02-29 By Regina Dugan. @ blog.ted.com…